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    Jun 7, 2008, 04:57 AM
    5 inch thread like insect in garden
    Hello thers was a thing in the garden this morn.it was aprox.5 inches long and looked like bunched up thread or thin string and it was mooving slowley in no direction or pattern I live in n.h. does anyone know what this is.thanks tim
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    Jun 7, 2008, 09:33 AM
    A tapeworm?
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    Jun 7, 2008, 09:36 AM
    What color was it?
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    Jun 7, 2008, 10:56 AM
    It was tan
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    Jun 8, 2008, 05:52 AM
    My wife thought the same thing ,tapeworm but I'm not sure where or how they exist.
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    Jun 8, 2008, 05:53 AM
    I'm not even sure if its an insect.
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    Jun 8, 2008, 07:17 AM
    I have seen earth worms that looked like if the area had too much rain and the worm drowned.

    I thought tapeworms, were tiny when they entered the body and grew. When they are expelled, it is in small segments. Unless an animal regurgitated it. If that is the case and you have dogs or cats, I would suggest getting them to the vet to be dewormed. *edit*about a third of the wway down ht epage there is a picture of a drowned earthwormhttp://peonyden.blogspot.com/2008/02/rain-and-hail-drown-giant-earthworms.html
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    Jun 10, 2008, 09:17 AM
    No it was nothing like that it looked exactly like a 5 inch PC.of moving thread.it was like a bunched up PC of thread and it seemed to be straighting it self out in the sunlight.it had a beginning and a end and they looked like they were the same.
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    Jun 10, 2008, 09:23 AM
    A threadworm? Those attack the lungs and liver. This might be the advance guard of an invading bug army... I'd suspend all scientific research and dispatch it post haste.
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    Jun 10, 2008, 09:27 AM
    Do you have animals? My neighbor called me over a few weeks ago to look at soemting like that... it seemed to be stiff and moved very slowly... she found it in a little of vomit... she has a few cats and 2 dogs and thinks they may have had worms , so she dewormed all of them. This actually looked like a piece of spaghetti and was the same color, except bthe ends were slightly tapered.
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    Jun 10, 2008, 09:35 AM
    What I saw on this lady's walk way looked like the round worm in this picture.Info on Worms, Roundworms, tapeworms, hookworms, whip worms, heartworms
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    Jun 10, 2008, 09:39 AM
    I tried simply to agree with Bushg but I've been pestering him a lot lately and they didn't let me, but he's right, most of the deworming medications simply paralyze the worms so they are expelled from the host. Other worms are expelled in the droppings when they mature, lay eggs on the grass and wait for the next host to come along and eat that grass so they can parasitize him
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    Jun 10, 2008, 10:11 AM
    http://www.eeob.iastate.edu/faculty/...ermithid-6.JPG
    Could this be it?

    What's That Bug: Planaria, Worms
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    Jun 10, 2008, 10:22 AM
    The Worm, the Spider and the Coffee Cup
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    Jul 29, 2008, 11:22 PM
    Is it a horse hair worm?
    Horsehair Worms | University of Kentucky Entomology
    http://www.utexas.edu/tmm/sponsored_.../horsehair.jpg
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